• The 2022 Frances Densmore Prize awarded to NEMO-Online Chief Editor and CERMAA Director Amine Beyhom

    We are delighted at NEMO-Online and CERMAA to announce that Amine Beyhom, Chief Editor of NEMO-Online and Director of the CERMAA, was awarded the 2022 Frances Densmore Prize by the American Musical Instrument Society for his 2020 Dossier on the ʿūd in NEMO-Online. The award announcement stands: The Frances Densmore Prize is awarded annually for the best article-length publication in English that furthers the goals of the Society. The 2022 Densmore Prize is awarded to Amine Beyhom for his article “Was the Early Arabian ‘Ūd ‘Fretted’?” published in Near-Eastern Musicology Online 5, no. 9 (November 2020). “Was the Early Arabian [more…]

  • In memoriam Katy Romanou / Publication internet et version imprimée du NUMÉRO SPÉCIAL DE NEMO-ONLINE / SPECIAL ISSUE of NEMO-ONLINE now online and in print

    In memoriam Katy Romanou / Publication internet et version imprimée du NUMÉRO SPÉCIAL DE NEMO-ONLINE / SPECIAL ISSUE of NEMO-ONLINE now online and in print

    In Memoriam Katy Romanou Available in free pdf version here. Available in print version (paperback) here. Contents / Articles Andriana SOULELE THE CHORUS REFORMATION IN MODERN PERFORMANCES OF ANCIENT GREEK TRAGEDY AFTER 1945: The Suppliants (1964) of Iannis Xenakis and The Persians (1965) of Jani Christou … p.1 Apostolos PALIOS ANALYTICAL AND INTERPRETATIVE APPROACH: Yorgo Sisilianos’s Works for Two Pianos … p.19 Christina GIANNELOU MY 20 YEARS LIFE TRIP: Between Katy Romanou and Rena Kyriakou … p.43 Lampros EFTHYMIOU A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW AND COMPARATIVE STUDY: Musical-Poetical Structural Analysis of Greek Folk-Songs … p.67 Lorenda RAMOU KATY ROMANOU S’EXPRIME: L’oeuvre pour [more…]

  • NEMO-Online Vol. 6 No. 10 is online / Mise en ligne de NEMO-Online Vol. 6 n°10

    English NEMO-Online is delighted to announce the publication of issue No. 10, with three articles by Amine Beyhom (English), Jean During (English) and Hanene Gharbi (حنان الغربي – Arabic). Amine Beyhom: “Further Analyses from the VIAMAP,” Near Eastern Musicology Online 6 10 |2021-11| p. 5–36. The article is a sequel to two already published articles, “MAT for the VIAMAP” and “The Lost Art of Maqām”, with 4 new video analyses and two explicative videos. “[With this article and analyses, the author has] opened a completely novel way of scientific enquiry in musicology.” Wim van der Meer Additional material: Video Analysis no. [more…]

  • NUMÉRO SPÉCIAL DE / NEMO ONLINE / SPECIAL ISSUE

    In Memoriam Katy Romanou NEMO-Online would like to inform potential authors for the NEMO-Online Special Issue “In Memoriam Katy Romanou” (below) that the deadline for submitting propositions of texts is extended till the end of March 2021. / NEMO-Online souhaite informer les auteurs potentiels d’hommages et d’articles pour le numéro spécial “In Memoriam Katy Romanou” (description en fin d’annonce) que la date limite de proposition de textes est étendue jusqu’à fin Mars 2021. The Editors / Les éditeurs English Katy Romanou (Kaitē Rōmanou) was born in 1939, Athens and died in May 2020. She studied at Indiana University where she [more…]

New article: A preliminary approach to the analysis of honkyoku, the solo repertoire of the Japanese shakuhachi – By Bruno Deschênes

Aug 272017
 

[Download links at the end] NEMO-Online is delighted to propose this new article on modality in a very different way than what we have been used to: it is based on the absence of modes in part of the Japanese honkyoku repertoire, while composition is ruled mainly by the tone-color of the sounds (we do not dare write “pitches”) emitted by the shakuhashu player, at least in Traditional composition. The article is written by Bruno Chikushin (his artist name) Deschênes, a musician and author of a book on the shakuhashi, himself a trained shakuhachi player. The aim of the article [more…]

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New article: The Truth about Babylonian Music – By Richard Dumbrill

Aug 222017
 

[Download links at the end] (Adapted) excerpts from the article (Introduction): The insistence of Mainstream Western Archaeomusicology at force-fitting the Babylonian musical system into the Western model is one of the greatest oversights in the History of music. It came from the methodology (or rather of its absence) of certain Assyriologists and of their determination at spearheading “their discoveries” by means of unsuitable Western models. The manner in which Musical systems are constructed, whether consciously or not, are part of the culture of a people and must be unveiled with the utmost respect and without linkage to theories of later [more…]

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